diff --git a/db-tabulator/web-endpoint.ts b/db-tabulator/web-endpoint.ts
index b208f03..e86ff13 100644
--- a/db-tabulator/web-endpoint.ts
+++ b/db-tabulator/web-endpoint.ts
@@ -9,10 +9,11 @@ import {
 	processQueries,
 	BOT_NAME
 } from "./app";
-import { createLogStream, mapPath } from "../utils";
-import {bot, enwikidb} from "../botbase";
+import {createLogStream, mapPath} from "../utils";
+import {bot} from "../botbase";
 import {getRedisInstance} from "../redis";
 import {EventEmitter} from "events";
+import {EnwikiWebDb} from "../db";
 
 const router = express.Router();
 
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ const redis = getRedisInstance();
 /** Store the list of pages currently undergoing update as a redis set */
 const redisKey = 'web-db-tabulator-pages';
 
-const db = new enwikidb();
+const db = new EnwikiWebDb();
 
 router.get('/stream', async (req, res) => {
 	const {page} = req.query as Record<string, string>;
@@ -77,7 +78,6 @@ router.get('/stream', async (req, res) => {
 		stream('looking-up-transclusions');
 		const title = bot.Title.newFromText(page);
 		try {
-			// FIXME: use the web replica here as this is a blocking call?
 			const transcludedReportPages = await db.query(`
 				SELECT lt_namespace, lt_title FROM templatelinks
 				JOIN linktarget ON tl_target_id = lt_id
diff --git a/db.ts b/db.ts
index 597119e..061d658 100644
--- a/db.ts
+++ b/db.ts
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import type {MwnDate} from "../mwn";
 import {onToolforge} from "./utils";
 
 export const ENWIKI_DB_HOST = 'enwiki.analytics.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud';
+export const ENWIKI_WEB_DB_HOST = 'enwiki.web.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud';
 export const TOOLS_DB_HOST = 'tools.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud';
 
 export abstract class db {
@@ -127,6 +128,7 @@ export class enwikidb extends db {
 
 	async getReplagHours() {
 		log('[V] Querying database lag');
+		// TODO: use heartbeat_p database for querying lag
 		const lastrev = await this.query(`SELECT MAX(rev_timestamp) AS ts FROM revision`);
 		const lastrevtime = new bot.date(lastrev[0].ts);
 		this.replagHours = Math.round((Date.now() - lastrevtime.getTime()) / 1000 / 60 / 60);
@@ -143,6 +145,15 @@ export class enwikidb extends db {
 	}
 }
 
+export class EnwikiWebDb extends enwikidb {
+	constructor(customOptions: mysql.PoolOptions = {}) {
+		super({
+			host: onToolforge() ? ENWIKI_WEB_DB_HOST : '127.0.0.1',
+			...customOptions
+		});
+	}
+}
+
 export class toolsdb extends db {
 	/**
 	 * @param dbname - DB name, `s54328__` will be prepended to this
@@ -166,3 +177,9 @@ export interface SQLError extends Error {
 	sqlState: string;
 	sqlMessage: string;
 }
+
+
+const enweb = new EnwikiWebDb();
+(async function () {
+	console.log(await enweb.query('SELECT page_title FROM page limit 10'))
+})()
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